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Epileptic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Affected with epilepsy.

adj. Of, relating to, or associated with epilepsy.

n. One who has epilepsy.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of, or relating to epilepsy.

adj. Of, or relating to an epileptic or epileptics, epileptic people.

n. A person who has epilepsy.

n. A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy.

n. One affected with epilepsy.

n. A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of epilepsy.

Affected with epilepsy.

n. One affected with epilepsy.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy

n. a person who has epilepsy

Word Usage

"Saturday Night Live's Kristen Wiig, the boys of Flight of the Conchords managed to mispronounce the word epileptic in about a handful of different ways, give a number of dogs seizures with their strobe lights, and wrestle each other to the ground in a catfight-like manner."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

sick person diseased person sufferer

Cross Reference

epileptic aura

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Septic antiseptic peptic septic skeptic

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

paralytic hysteric cataleptic scrofulous rheumatic